MailEnable Standard 1.8 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MailEnable Standard 1.8. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2005-0804. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in MailEnable Standard 1.8 (Mail Server Software). This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Format string vulnerability in MailEnable 1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the mailto field.

The bug was discovered 03/17/2005. The weakness was disclosed 03/17/2005 by Mati Aharoni (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at secunia.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-0804 since 03/20/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After before and not just, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at hackingdefined.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17364 (MailEnable Standard SMTP mailto: Request Format String), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SMTP problems and running in the context r.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19730), Exploit-DB (887), Tenable (17364), SecurityFocus (BID 12833†) and OSVDB (14858†). The entry VDB-25751 is pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 17364
Nessus Name: MailEnable Standard SMTP mailto: Request Format String
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: Mati Aharoni
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-0804 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0804
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24627
X-Force: 19730
SecurityFocus: 12833 - MailEnable Remote Format String Vulnerability
Secunia: 14627 - MailEnable Standard SMTP Format String Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 14858 - MailEnable Standard SMTP mailto: Request Format String
Vulnerability Center: 11572 - MailEnable SMTP Format String Vulnerability in mailto Header, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 07/09/2019 07:54
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (79), 07/09/2019 07:54 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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